Hi please answer, I was 8 weeks 5 days when I took my abortion pill. The next day I took the rest as instructed and had the miscarriage/abortion. I wanted to ask you, do you have any idea if the fetus can feel anything when it starts to expel the body, I don't want to say the word die... but is it possible for the baby to feel anything or something?
Embryo - the term for what has developed from an egg and sperm up until week 10
Fetus - starting in week 11 up until birth
BabyĀ - offspring after it has been born
Some developmental steps:
At 8 weeks,Ā the embryo has some nerve cells, which are branching out and forming primitive neural pathways.
Almost all organs are completely formed by week 12, except for theĀ brain and spinal cord, which continue to form and develop throughout pregnancy.
Statements on fetal pain:
āIn reviewing the neuroanatomical and physiological evidence in the fetus, it was apparent that connections from the periphery to the cortex are not intact before 24 weeks of gestation and, as most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is necessary for pain perception, it can be concluded that the fetus cannot experience pain in any sense prior to this gestation.ā Ā - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
āPain perception requiresconscious recognition or awareness of a noxious stimulus. Neither withdrawal reflexes norhormonal stress responses to invasive procedures prove the existence of fetal pain, becausethey can be elicited by nonpainful stimuli and occur without conscious cortical processingā¦.The review concluded that fetal perception of pain is unlikelybefore the third trimester.āĀ - American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
āEvidence regarding the capacity for fetal pain is limited but indicates that fetal perception of pain is unlikely before the third trimester.ā - Journal of the American Medical Association
Embryos do not feel pain, they barely have a neural system to transmit pain stimuli. Ā Fetuses likely donāt feel pain until at least the third trimester, somewhere around 28-30 weeks gestation. Ā And even then, thereās a lot to be discussed about whether or not that means pain the way the we experience pain. Ā ā[W]hile nociception is neural activity, pain is an unpleasant feeling. It follows that while pain requires some level of consciousness, nociception does not.ā Ā [source] Ā Does having the ability to transmit the signal mean the fetus is experiencing anĀ āunpleasant feelingā?Ā
All of that is to say that no, you did not cause pain to the embryo during the medication abortion.Ā It is not conscious, and cannot experience pain.
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